Access point connection over wifi bridge?

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Chelseabulldog

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Hi there first time posting on one of these things but need some extra brains ! So the scenario is the following two very large apartments first apartment has a router and 2 access points, one room in the other apartment receives 2/3 bar wifi reception in one room ... So trying to do the following connect a access point over wifi to the upstairs Internet and then daisy chain 2 access points off the access point which is connected via wifi .... Can this be done and how ?

Today I tried to connect wirelessly but the router I had an Asus RT88U only allows it to be done via a media bridge which connected fine and I had internet traffic via cable but when I connect access point to the media bridge it doesn't get an IP address and doesn't work can this not be done via a media bridge? Do I need another type of bridge ? Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance
 
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The way you are doing it will end up with a very slow and unstable connection. The correct way is to wire Eithernet ports from the router to the apartments, then connect the AP to that network. Daisy chaining wireless connections is not stable nor fast since half the wireless bandwidth will be used for the connection between the devices. By the time you go through all this using wireless links, each computer will be getting about 1/20th of the WiFi bandwidth not to mention tons of interference.

If the apartments on on the same electrical circuit you can use power line adapters instead of a cable run.
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The way you are doing it will end up with a very slow and unstable connection. The correct way is to wire Eithernet ports from the router to the apartments, then connect the AP to that network. Daisy chaining wireless connections is not stable nor fast since half the wireless bandwidth will be used for the connection between the devices. By the time you go through all this using wireless links, each computer will be getting about 1/20th of the WiFi bandwidth not to mention tons of interference.

If the apartments on on the same electrical circuit you can use power line adapters instead of a cable run.
 
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Chelseabulldog

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Thanks buddy problem is it is a listed building and the apartments are diagonally opposite I have some power lines will try but do think it will work due to different rings between the two but will try that first if not will use the option of wifi extender then power line across the apartment
 
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